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thanks for being with us. enjoy the rest of your weekend. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> next on booktv, encore booknotes. in this booknotes presentation from july 2002, beppe severgnini discussed his memoir, "ciao, america!' in which he compares his experiences in italy and america. it is about an hour. c-span: beppe severgnini, author of "ciao, america!" how do you translate that from italian? t >> guest: originally, it was "un italiano in america," which -- "an italian in america." but i have to say, i like "ciao, america!" better. "italian in america," you know, you may think it's a story abou immigration or -- which is not. it's a story about an italian or, may i say, a european, because this is very much a triangular book. bo is a very british element there. i lived in britain. i learned my english there.ur utd so it's like a northp european, south european american book.n? c-span: what's "ciao" mean? >> guest: oh, you know that. "ciao" means "hello." c-span: and the name beppe? >> and the name beppe? >> it is like bob and rob
thanks for being with us. enjoy the rest of your weekend. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> next on booktv, encore booknotes. in this booknotes presentation from july 2002, beppe severgnini discussed his memoir, "ciao, america!' in which he compares his experiences in italy and america. it is about an hour. c-span: beppe severgnini, author of "ciao, america!" how do you translate that from italian? t >> guest: originally, it was "un italiano in...
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three of us. and i had a couple who were bookstore owners who were family friends as well. and sometimes we went to the mountains with them, you know? >> how could you, though, go to a restaurant when you're not allowed to look each other in the eye? >> well, this is the paradox of iran, and that is why i'm saying that these guys are using literature as a religion, ideology. give you an example n. buss in iran, buses are segregated. women are supposed to sit behind men. but in taxis and mini buses, women and men are sitting on top of one another. there's not enough room. so the fact is that you see these contradictions in iran of and a lot of journalist who is go to iran, that is what gets them. that the laws are always behind the society itself. of course, they also raid the restaurants. and once when i was there with my magician, they raided it. and if they caught us together, despite the fact that my husband knew and didn't minded, they could have, you know, accused us of adultery just because
three of us. and i had a couple who were bookstore owners who were family friends as well. and sometimes we went to the mountains with them, you know? >> how could you, though, go to a restaurant when you're not allowed to look each other in the eye? >> well, this is the paradox of iran, and that is why i'm saying that these guys are using literature as a religion, ideology. give you an example n. buss in iran, buses are segregated. women are supposed to sit behind men. but in taxis...
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but at the same time the fact that i use those -- fact that i use those institutions should not necessarily mean that i wouldn't like to see them changed. >> in the past, you know, you look back from the time that you left hungary and went to england and then the united states, where were you politically along the way, the way that the united states would relate to during a cold war country like china, one of these countries? were you on the side of most of the administrations here an their foreign policies? >> i was very clearly on the side of the west. and therefore the united states was the leader of the free world. it doesn't mean that i was supporting all of the policies. in fact living in the free world you have to be critical. so i was actually quite critical of clinton's policies. i was very critical of the missed opportunity in -- when the soviet system collapsed. i was advocating for a more interventionist approach. i thought this -- i talked about a new marshal plan and i was laughed at when i talked about it. and so i was critical. i was critical of our policies in bosnia, kosov
but at the same time the fact that i use those -- fact that i use those institutions should not necessarily mean that i wouldn't like to see them changed. >> in the past, you know, you look back from the time that you left hungary and went to england and then the united states, where were you politically along the way, the way that the united states would relate to during a cold war country like china, one of these countries? were you on the side of most of the administrations here an...
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it's -- you know, how he pulls us in, offers us affection and pushes us out again. it's an exercise in mind-play, which i think i've analyzed in the book. c-span: who is david icke? >> guest: it's actually david icke. c-span: icke? oh. >> guest: yeah. c-span: looked like icke. >> guest: he could -- you could pronounce it icke. c-span: i-c-k-e. >> guest: uh-huh. he was a bbc sports personality c-span: really was? >> guest: uh-huh. oh, household name in britain. and he announced in 1991 that he was the son of god. and this had never happened before, so it became a... c-span: where did he announce this? >> guest: oh, on the terry wogan chat show on the bbc. c-span: just one day said, "i am the son of god." >> guest: yeah. and in britain, this was a big splash. it's kind of like geraldo suddenly announcing he's the son of god. it would become a big deal. c-span: do you know anything we don't know? is it -- is that an announcement coming? (laughter) >> guest: i'm not sure! but david icke said, "not only am i the son of god, but the world is about to be destroyed by catac
it's -- you know, how he pulls us in, offers us affection and pushes us out again. it's an exercise in mind-play, which i think i've analyzed in the book. c-span: who is david icke? >> guest: it's actually david icke. c-span: icke? oh. >> guest: yeah. c-span: looked like icke. >> guest: he could -- you could pronounce it icke. c-span: i-c-k-e. >> guest: uh-huh. he was a bbc sports personality c-span: really was? >> guest: uh-huh. oh, household name in britain. and...
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with a muskett,, with us and join us in combat, come with us anywhere but as a newspaper reporter, never. and it's still one of the most stunning letters from a general to a reporter i've ever seen. cspan: you had an interesting statistic in the book that the north had 15,000 miles of telegraph -- >> guest: yeah. cspan: and the south had 1,000. >> guest: right. they didn't have very much, but they did attend -- thus other newspapers did tend in the latter part of the war to be an undercover press association which would surprise them with a very small amount of cable and telegraph news every day, maybe less than 1,000 words, which some of these northern reporters would take that long to write their leaves probably. cspan: did you tell the number of reporters there were? >> guest: . >> guest: i didn't know just what a reporter was. there was some regiments that have an officer, somebody with them sending material home in the newspaper and historians rely on those a lot. but i suppose for the north if he wanted to -- there will over 200, surely. maybe 50 to 75. cspan: again, perrty al asad
with a muskett,, with us and join us in combat, come with us anywhere but as a newspaper reporter, never. and it's still one of the most stunning letters from a general to a reporter i've ever seen. cspan: you had an interesting statistic in the book that the north had 15,000 miles of telegraph -- >> guest: yeah. cspan: and the south had 1,000. >> guest: right. they didn't have very much, but they did attend -- thus other newspapers did tend in the latter part of the war to be an...
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does that surprise us? i mean, it--it was a very ebullient economy, they were all--there was this release of ordinary ambition and there was this sort of scrambling for land. in the south you had a scrambling for land and slaves. but the southerners managed to keep this out of public view. in the north it was much more open, and this was new; this was novel. it wasn't refined. it wasn't restrained the way it had been, and people were shocked at this open avidity for gain. c-span: where did it come from? >> guest: 'almighty dollar'? c-span: no, the idea of... >> guest: the--the--the... c-span: ... the--the rush for money. i mean, that comes up in your--materialism. >> guest: i--i think it came from the absence of restraints. i think it m--it meant that people could follow their ambition and they could be--they could brag about it at the tavern, they could talk about it in the parlor. and maybe there were some people who were outraged that they were doing this. i mean, people of taste, no doubt, you know, wer
does that surprise us? i mean, it--it was a very ebullient economy, they were all--there was this release of ordinary ambition and there was this sort of scrambling for land. in the south you had a scrambling for land and slaves. but the southerners managed to keep this out of public view. in the north it was much more open, and this was new; this was novel. it wasn't refined. it wasn't restrained the way it had been, and people were shocked at this open avidity for gain. c-span: where did it...
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what are the concepts that we are using? that was a collection of essays, and i reprinted a lecture i had given, the jefferson lecture on "heroes, villains and valets." i was interested there in what is happening to our idea of heroes, what is our conception of great men. i was also interested in what was going on in the universities in the discipline of history, of philosophy, of law, of english literature and so on. enormous transformations are taking place in the universities and i think in the cultural world at large. c-span: in your book on the victorian period, someone you write a lot about is someone you said was a socialist; you say that she wasn't a feminist. i'm not sure this is the way you'd pronounce it, but it looks like beatrice webb. you can get surprised at some of these names. >> guest: beatrice webb, right. c-span: who was she? >> guest: she was a fascinating character, in some ways just extra -- ordinarily admirable other ways someone who provoked you to great irritation. i think it was winston churchill w
what are the concepts that we are using? that was a collection of essays, and i reprinted a lecture i had given, the jefferson lecture on "heroes, villains and valets." i was interested there in what is happening to our idea of heroes, what is our conception of great men. i was also interested in what was going on in the universities in the discipline of history, of philosophy, of law, of english literature and so on. enormous transformations are taking place in the universities and i...